Nature's Wisdom Deck: A Powerfully Insightful Guide for Exploring Life’s Changes
Nature's Wisdom Deck: A Powerfully Insightful Guide for Exploring Life’s Changes
by Carol McClelland Fields, PhD
(Transition Dynamics, 1993)
The essential companion for The Seasons of Change and a great gift for friends or family members in transition and a valuable tool for healers, consultants, and therapists.
If you are wrestling with the emotions of a career loss or a personal loss, this book will give you a map of your transition journey and practical tasks you can do to move forward.
No matter where you are on your path through life, Nature's Wisdom Deck is a transformative, thought-provoking guide to understanding and moving through life's changes.
The package contains 90 nature cards in a detachable case. An 80-page guidebook contains a step-by-step description of nine ways to use the cards. (The book and the deck are printed on recycled paper and packaged to maximize usability and minimize disposable waste.)
Nature's Wisdom Deck is the essential companion to Seasons of Change.
Excerpt
Just as cultures close to the land observe and gain insight from their interaction with nature, each card within Nature's Wisdom Deck will provide you with new understanding, insight, and inspiration about your transition. As you read the following section about the format of the cards, you may want to refer to the deck.
Nature's Wisdom Deck consists of 90 cards that are grouped into six suits. On each card, you can identify the suit by reading the text at the top of the card. The suit that serves as the foundation of the deck is the Seasons:Transitions suit. Each of the remaining five suits represents an aspect of nature that responds to the changing seasons and symbolizes an aspect of the transition process.
Because the images represented on the 90 cards are based on nature, you already have a vast amount of knowledge that will help you interpret the cards--if you let go and trust your intuition. Over time you will begin to develop your own understanding of the cards and their meanings.
Just as cultures close to the land observe and gain insight from their interaction with nature, each card within Nature's Wisdom Deck will provide you with new understanding, insight, and inspiration about your transition. As you read the following section about the format of the cards, you may want to refer to the deck.
Testimonials about Nature's Wisdom Deck
“Familiarizing myself with Nature’s Wisdom Deck has given me a wonderful way to focus during my walks in nature. Now, when my eyes are drawn to the trees or the animals, I remember the deck and look at how I am responding to the changes occurring in my life.”
“The Nature’s Wisdom Deck is one of my favorite tools for helping clients gain deeper insight during their self-assessment process. The cards never fail to reveal simple, clarifying insights.”
“With Nature’s Wisdom Deck, Carol McClelland Fields has given us a simple, yet elegant way to relate to the naturally occurring cycles of change in our lives. Playing with these cards is not only fun, but thought provoking and therapeutic as well.”
“Nature’s Wisdom Deck is a great guide to explore change—gently and subtly—without giving an exact answer. That part is still up to me.”
“The nature metaphors in Nature’s Wisdom Deck were a powerful clue to my own sense of being. ”
“There can be much fear in the transition process...your unique perspective has eased my fears. The “fox pup emerging from the burrow” and the “meaning of Winter” metaphors are powerful!”
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Change and Transition
Chapter 2: About Nature's Wisdom Deck
Chapter 3: Using Nature's Wisdom Deck
Chapter 4: Insight Activities
Chapter 5: Layouts
Appendix: Card Interpretations